I thought I had finally found a movie the whole family could enjoy. I had read from BYU Magazine (spring 2004) that "Napoleon Dynamite" was "genuine, sincere, hilarious — and it was clean, too." I thought we couldn't miss.

But I found "Napoleon" to be a dud. I was very embarrassed to have my three sons witness flier ads for bust enhancement in the movie — not once, but three or four times.

My 11-year-old thought the movie was funny "except for the bad stuff." My 16-year-old and I found it stupid and annoying. No wonder Jared Hess, the writer and director, "about dropped the phone" when he heard that Sundance had accepted the film for its festival.

Ruth Ann Williams

Salem